This document discusses various artistic representations of whales throughout history, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more. It references works such as Turner's famous painting "Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth" as well as images from Moby Dick in Pictures and scrimshaw. The document also discusses the challenges of depicting whales on a two-dimensional surface and capturing their "true form".

3. The Pictorial Chapters
Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of
Whales
Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures
of Whales and the True pictures of
Whaling Scenes
Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in
Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in
Mountains; in Stars.

4. MATT KISH, MOBY-DICK IN PICTURES: ONE DRAWING FOR EVERY PAGE [2009 - 2011]
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7. Turner: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour‟s Mouth, 1842
„A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous
man distracted. Yet there was a sort of indefinite, half-attained,
unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it‟… (p13)

8. Ekphrasis
„the verbal representation of visual
representation‟
James Heffernan, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1993) p.7

14. Goldsmith‟s Animated Nature (1876)

16. Hogarth, Perseus Descending (1730)

17. Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783–1857),
"Peche de la Baleine” and “Peche du Cachalot”

18. Scrimshaw

20. „I shall ere long paint to you as well as one
can without canvas, something like the
true form of the whale as he actually
appears to the eye of the whaleman‟.
„the great Leviathan is that one creature in
the world which must remain unpainted to
the last‟.

22. Jackson Pollock, Blue (Moby Dick) c. 1943